Vengeance in Medieval Europe : : A Reader / / ed. by Kelly Lyn Gibson, Daniel Lord Smail.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Gibson, Kelly Lyn,; Smail, Daniel Lord,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society. The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. PROLOGUE : ANCIENT SOURCES FOR MEDIEVAL CONCEPTS OF VENGEANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: THE OLD TESTAMENT -- CHAPTER TWO: THE NEW TESTAMENT -- CHAPTER THREE: ROMAN LAWS -- PART II. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (400 –1000) -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER FOUR: CODES , CAPITULARIES , AND PENITENTIA -- CHAPTER FIVE : SERMONS , EXEGESIS , AND LETTERS -- CHAPTER SIX: SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS -- CHAPTER SEVEN : FORMULARIES , CHARTERS, AND JUDGMENTS -- PART III. THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000 –1250) -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE EFFORT TO REGULATE VIOLENCE AND EMOTION -- CHAPTER NINE : SERMONS AND LEARNED COMMENTARY ON ANGER AND VENGEANCE -- CHAPTER TEN : SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS -- CHAPTER ELEVEN : PEACE CHARTERS AND OATHS -- PART IV. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (1250 –1500) -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER TWELVE : MUNICIPAL , TERRITORIAL , AND ROYAL LAWS CONCERNING VENGEANCE AND MURDER -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN : ECCLESIASTICAL AND SECULAR COMMENTARY ON PEA CE AND THE RESTRAINT OF EMOTIONS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN : SAINTS ’ LIVES , CHRONICLES , AND EPICS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN : COURT CASES AND NOTARIAL PEACE ACTS -- Index of Topics -- Sources